Biography for
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Date of Birth

2 June 1978, Greenwich, London, England, UK

Birth Name

Dominic Edward Cooper

Height

5' 9½" (1.77 m)

Mini Biography

Dominic grew up in Greenwich, London, England. His mother is a nursery school teacher and a keen theater-goer. His father is an Auctioneer. They divorced when Dominic was age 5. He has two older brothers, Nathan and Simon. He had a sister who died in a car accident when she was age 5, which happened before Dominic was born. He also has a half-sister from an extramarital affair by his father and a half-brother from his father's second marriage.

He went to school in Kidbrooke, attending the Thomas Tallis School. He didn't know what to do afterwards and his girlfriend, at the time, suggested that he should apply to drama school. He did his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He performed in the end of year play 'Waiting For Godot' and this performance landed him the renowned agent Pippa Markham.

He graduated in 2000 and started with a few minor roles in television and theater. In 2004, he landed a role at the National Theatre with 'The History Boys'. He originated the role of Dakin, as he was involved in the play from the very beginning. He played the role for two years on the stage and then, for the final time, in his breakthrough film role The History Boys (2006).

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Trivia

Nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2006 for the role of Dakin in the Broadway production of Alan Bennett's "The History Boys."

Replaced Orlando Bloom in An Education.

Auditioned for the role of Fandral in Thor.

Auditioned for the role of Anton in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, but lost out to Andrew Garfield.

Shared a house with James Corden who he co-starred with in The History Boys (2006).

He was banned from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts’ final-year musical for having no sense of rhythm. He performed in the end of year play instead.

His maternal great-grandfather was film enthusiast E.T. Heron, who published The Kinematograph Weekly.

Personal Quotes

[on filming The Devil's Double (2011), with co-star Ludivine Sagnier] I think we both see the ridiculous nature of the business, and we can both laugh at it. I think that's what the key to survival is as an actor. You can never really take yourself too seriously. It's playing, even when the materials is this dark and this serious and this real.